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Mormons may create alternative scouting organization
Were the church to follow through, it could financially impact the BSA quite dramatically, as the LDS is the organization’s largest Scouting sponsor.
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End of Boy Scouts’ ban on gays prompts elation and alarm
The contrasting reactions followed the BSA national executive board’s 45-12 vote on Monday to lift the nationwide ban while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to continue excluding gay adults.
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Utah LGBT leader says more help needed for transgender youth
The issue is personally important for Edmonds-Allen. One of her and her wife’s four children identifies as transgender.
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Judge rules Utah should put 2 moms on birth certificate
U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said Wednesday the case wasn’t hard to decide in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Governor: ‘Utah may look at more religious protections’
Utah lawmakers may need to look at whether more religious protections are needed after the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Republican Gov. Gary Herbert said Wednesday.
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HRC slams rival organization, plans Utah conference
The nation’s largest LGBT organization has announced plans to hold a conference in Salt Lake City just days before the conservative World Congress of Families stages a convention in the city.
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Mormon church donates to Utah LGBT community center
The Utah-based Mormon church has given its first-ever charitable donation to an LGBT community center in Salt Lake City.
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Utah man who claimed ‘Die fag’ was carved into his arm during hate crime, staged attacks
Authorities in rural Utah say a man who reported someone beat him and carved a homophobic slur into his arm staged the attacks.
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Utah man says he was robbed, had ‘Die Fag’ carved into his arm, forced to drink bleach
A young man in Delta, Utah was robbed, had “Die Fag” carved into his arm with a knife, and was forced to drink bleach on a Saturday night in late April, but the story doesn’t end there.
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For 2nd year, Mormon LGBT group’s bid to join parades is denied
Organizers of the Days of ’47 Parade in Salt Lake City and the Freedom Festival Grand Parade in Provo have again denied the bid by Mormons Building Bridges to take part.